Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] decnet: move to staging

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:19:53 +0100

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 07:30:09AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 09:02:14PM CET, [email-masked] wrote:
> >Support for Decnet has been orphaned for many years.
> >In the interest of reducing the potential bug surface and pre-holiday
> >cleaning, move the decnet protocol into staging for eventual removal.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
> 
> Why not just remove it in the same way tokenring was removed in the
> past? I fear that in staging, this will rot forever for no good reason.

No, I will not let it stay around for long :)

Stephen, no objection from me for this, but can you add a TODO file much
like drivers/staging/irda/TODO has?

thanks,

greg k-h